The Future is Now

This is the day your life will surely change...

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Anyone of average intelligence can invent a joke, but only a genius can create a whole new species of joke. Bring your kids into the room. Take a picture of you and today's newspaper in front of your computer screen. Comedy will never be the same.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Ring-Ring Joke.

As you might suspect, it is of the Knock-Knock Joke genus, and goes as follows:

Amuser: Ring-Ring

Amusee: How may I direct your call?

Amuser: (Set up goes here.)

Amusee: To which (repeats set up).

Amuser: (Hilarious punchline.)


Some of your old Knock-Knocks are immediately compatible:

Ring-ring...

How may I direct your call?

To banana.

To which banana?

Ring-ring...

Etc.

Other Knock-Knocks are not compatible:

Ring-ring...

How may I direct your call?

To I-eap.

To which I-eap?

Uh...

Some old Knock-Knocks will take on a whole new flavor:

Ring-ring...

How may I direct your call?

To the Interruptive Cow.

To which Interruptive Cow?

To Dennis Hasting, that jerk in the Sales Department.

But mostly this new genre is a blank canvess:

Ring-ring...

How may I direct your call?

To Is.

To which is?

To whichis (riches) beyond youw (your) wildest imagination!

Now go and do thou likewise...